LOL! What a surprise! Little John came home this weekend with his hair all cut off and look!

He loves his mommy.

I got this terrible rash from some drug the doc gave me, and I’m not sure but fairly certain that it was the Cipro I was taking for an upper respiratory infection because as soon as I quit taking it the rash went away, but it could have been caused by it being mixed with the other chemo stuff as I’ve taken Cipro before but never had a rash occur. Anywho- It was driving me absolutely bat shit so I asked the pharmacist what I could take for the rash or use on it and BECAUSE of the chemo drugs, not a whole hell of a lot it turns out, although when I finally went to the doc about it she told me I could take Benadryl. OK the Benadryl helped but before that the pharmacist told me Aveeno Oatmeal Bath, so I went and bought some and sure enough it helped quite a bit, but good God! 8 bucks for 8 packets.

I read the back of the package and it said that it’s 100% colloidal oatmeal. Hmmmm- of course I get on here and look up colloidal and Jaysus! all that means is fine particles. I go to the grocery store and buy a big ass container of oatmeal (NOT Quick Oats mind you) for $2.99 and come home and put a few tablespoons in the blender and punch High and Pulverize and I HAVE colloidal oatmeal. Works like a charm and oh- 8 bucks my ass!

Still kickin’!! Got to go for chemo today though so who knows when I’ll feel like getting back. Had a really good Christmas and I hope y’all did too!!!

Special thanks to Cathy!! Loved the card!!

LOL! I’m on an acronym kick I think. That’s why I’ve been down so much lately though, because so are my WBC (white blood cells). I’ve been having to go to the doc’s every day for Neuprogen shots after each chemo session. You go in one day, do the chemo, and then a few days later have to go back for the $7,000.00 shot that’s supposed to keep the WBC level, and then a few days after that go back for lab and they draw blood specifically to check the WBC count again. When they find it’s low they start with the other shots and God only knows what they cost but my insurance company signed off on those immediately. Hmmmmm- Wonder why? LOL The main thing though is keeping them growing, which is what the Neuprogen does and if it doesn’t then I’m either going to have to get a TRANSFUSION, God forbid, or they have to lessen my chemo drugs even more than they already have and that will just stretch this whole damn ordeal out longer. Sigh.

Keeping the faith though and I manage to get everyone in the chemo room talking when I’m there anyways. LOL It’s always dead quiet when I walk in, but that doesn’t last long because I engage the others in whatever- No one has told me to STFU yet and leave them suffer in silence. Hee Hee.

Got to go back this morning for lab to see if the last two days shots have done any good. I’m hoping though because those shots make my bones ache. Good thing I have an understanding doc- She prescribed Dilaudid for God’s sake. That takes the pain away and therefore here I am typing. LOL

I don’t mean Bulletin Board System either. Anyone remember those? LOL Be Back Soon. Just been feeling kind of funky lately but they’ve changed my meds up and I’m feeling a little better I think- so we shall see.

You may notice to the left under the Dead Guy Header that I’ve added links for the soon to be answered so we’ll be able to keep track of who’s been guessed and also for standings.  I’ve also put ye old crown back up and I’m thinking that DL was on top when we last played so I used her as an example of what you receive for guessing correctly- a link to your site and that oh so lovely crown. LMAO!  I’m sure if any of the old players disagree with who had the most correctly guessed when I fell off the face of the earth you’ll be sure and let me know!!!

ALSO! LOL- It’s been so damned long- I finally got the smilies working and of course they’re not yet as I want them but they DO work so feel free to use them. I got my RED for NO and GREEN for YES going tooooo! Geez- who would of thunk ME of all people would forget this stuff?

Time for a new “Dead Guy”.

If you are unfamiliar with this game please check out the rules under “Dead Guy” on the left sidebar.  Remember! The “Dead Guy” can be from any time period so make your questions pertinent!

I am answering the first question that is on your mind and I will do so with each new “Dead Guy”. This “Dead Guy” is actually a “Dead Chick”, so this new “Dead Guy” is female.

Let the game begin!

The Dead Guy will return soon!!!!

You may or may not have noticed that I’ve already posted the rules on the left sidebar.  I’ll be adding to that section once the game gets started with the list to the already guessed Dead Guys and top guessers too and somewhere in all my stuff I still have the crown so pretty much expect the same old game.
Got chemo for the first time this morning so don’t know how that’s going to affect me but expect to see a Dead Guy soon!!!!

I posted the predetermination stuff on the 30th of October and today is the 5th of November. OK, other than stating the obvious, what’s the point?  I went to the medical oncologist’s office Monday the 3rd and asked the chemo nurse if she’d heard anything and she told me not a word. I told her I’d take care of it and left the office more pissed off than I’ve been in quite a while.  I had been told that this would be expedited. Perhaps I don’t understand the word?

I get home and get the insurance company on the phone and I got disconnected somehow- gee- go figure, it was right after I told the woman I was speaking with that I wasn’t directing my ire at her, that I understood she only works there, but I love the smell of napalm in the morning. So I call back natch and I end up getting the first person I’d spoken with the week before and she gave me some BS about the doctor’s office hadn’t sent the diagnostic codes and they had sent a letter to them explaining and I would have to wait on the doc’s office to get the mail and then mail them back, yada yada yada.  I then ask don’t they have a god damn telephone or something new called email and fax?  Why in hell would you use snail mail when someone’s life very well may hang in the balance?  I am absolutely fuming now.  So this woman tells me she’ll call the chemo nurse and get the codes and puts me on hold to Chopin this time, I think-  She comes back a good five minutes later and tells me that she knows my claim will not be accepted because my diagnosis doesn’t indicate the need for the white blood cell builder, that my doctor will have to decide on a different form of treatment.  OK.

I then tell her that I was immediately going to update my will to include the fact if I were to die because of their refusal to OK my claim that the first thing my husband should do in the event of my death was to sue the holy living dog shit out of them and I hung up.

At this time it was 3:03PM and I had to pick my son up at 3:15 so I had to rush to get to his school on time and I decided to stop by the doctor’s office on my way home to tell her what they had told me and see what we were going to do now.  I arrived there about 3:30 and the chemo nurse came out to speak with me and told me that the insurance company seemed to have a change of heart and my first appointment for chemo would be this Friday at 9:30 AM.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.  It smells like VICTORY!

LOL  OK! So I haven’t started chemo yet because the doc is waiting on the reply from the insurance company because this one drug they give you in between the bouts of the actual cancer killer stuff is $7,000.00, and I’m at 100% on my claims so they have to pay it ALL.  What it does is build your white blood cells back up after the chemo drug has killed them so it’s kind of important.
I call the doc’s office and talk to the chemo nurse and she tells me she still hasn’t heard from them and she faxed them the papers the end of last week, so I start thinking like the old Diane and decide to give the insurance company a call. Hee Hee.  The lady that answers wants to know what my problem is so I tell her I was wondering why it was taking them so long for the predetermination on my chemo because I’d like to get started with it before I die.  That got her attention.  She got the doc’s number from me and puts me on hold and I sit through some Mozart and she gets back on the phone and tells me they didn’t know that the info had  been faxed (yeah right) but she had found it, all eight pages, and she was getting her supervisor on it pronto and she would call me and let me know ASAP what the deal is-  So the fax has been there since last Thursday and no one knew? Pulease. You can bet your ass they know it now.